WorksheetsLanguage & Power: Power in Discourse
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
If power is enforceable because it comes from a place of authority - eg rules, laws - it can be described as...
influential power
instrumental power
The power to shape ideas or to persuade an audience can be described as...
influential power
instrumental power
In rhetoric, an appeal to logic, reason and rationality is known as...
ethos
pathos
logos
kairos
'Teacher talk' is an example of...
instrumental power (spoken)
instrumental power (written)
Influential power (spoken)
influential power (written)
Modal auxiliary verbs that express possibility, probability or certainty are known as...
epistemic
deontic
Modal auxiliary verbs that express degrees of necessity and obligation are known as...
epistemic
deontic
Every profession generates its own specialised language or field specific lexis. We often call this...
rhetoric
graphology
jargon
neologisms
Which of these is not likely to be a graphology feature?
Images
Rhetorical devices
Font
Colour
Layout
Which rhetorical device is this: opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction
antithesis
asyndeton
anaphora
assonance
Which rhetorical device is this: understatement, for intensification, by denying the opposite of the thing being affirmed. (Eg 'not bad' rather than 'good')
metonymy
litotes
tautology
zeugma
